Andrei Barysevich – Network Securitas

October 15, 2019

“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards

This post was originally published on this site“BriansClub,” one of the largest underground stores for buying stolen credit card data, has itself been hacked. The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone. An ad for BriansClub has been using my name and likeness for years to peddle millions of stolen credit cards. Last month, KrebsOnSecurity was contacted by a source who shared a plain text file containing what was […]

October 29, 2019

Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub Breach

This post was originally published on this siteReporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world’s largest financial institutions tend to have a much better idea of which merchants and bank cards have been breached than do the thousands of smaller banks and credit unions across the United States. Also, a great deal of cybercrime seems to be perpetrated by a relatively small number of people. In September, an anonymous source sent KrebsOnSecurity a link to a nearly 10 gb […]